How do you use Ashes in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Ashes meaning
plural of ash
Using Ashes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of ash
- In the example corpus, ashes often appears in combinations such as: the ashes, ashes of, ashes series.
Context around Ashes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ashes
- In this selection, "ashes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, episode, mixed, dance, series, came and judy stand out and add context to how "ashes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include list of ashes series for and 1982 episode ashes to ashes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ashes" sits close to words such as arabic, boring and fathers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ashes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Also why the ashes are the ashes. (7 words)
Australia came into the next Ashes series in England as favourites to retain the Ashes. (15 words)
Series and matches :See also: List of Ashes series for a full listing of all the Ashes series. (18 words)
The women pocketed the proceeds, and the ashes Judy received didn’t even belong to her father, but rather were “mixed ashes of other people, along with burnt trash,” she testified in court in July of last year. (38 words)
Surprisingly beaten, a mock obituary of English cricket was published in the Sporting Times the following day: the phrase "The body shall be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia" prompted the subsequent creation of the Ashes urn. (38 words)
Quest to "recover those ashes" seeAlso The Honourable Ivo Bligh Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to "recover those ashes". (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The event took place during the 1982 episode 'Ashes to Ashes', where the Trotters' scheme to spread Trigger's grandfather's ashes in the River Thames was foiled by a series of unfortunate events.
And “Ashes to Ashes” and “Rebel Rebel” and “Under Pressure” and “Starman” and “All the Young Dudes” and everything else you could possibly want David Bowie to play.
As I blessed the ashes, it occurred to me that the ashes came from the Palm branches of last year’s Psalm Sunday prior to Easter.
She hopes to use a company called Ashes In Space which charges £2,950 and would send the ashes up in a balloon.
She’s a member of a growing group of people who are choosing to send their ashes or the ashes of loved ones, including pets, into space.
The women pocketed the proceeds, and the ashes Judy received didn’t even belong to her father, but rather were “mixed ashes of other people, along with burnt trash,” she testified in court in July of last year.
From paper to bindings to etchings, the limited edition of 50 copies of “Ashes to Ashes: A Homecoming Celebration for the Unburied” were made entirely by hand.
After receiving your loved one’s ashes from a cremation service, you can do whatever you wish with your loved one’s ashes.
Bowie, whose songs include Let’s Dance, Ashes To Ashes and Starman, is said to have penned the lyrics to Life On Mars on the steps of the bandstand.
The second of the poems, “Ashes and a Mitt,” was about Horwitz’s wish to have his ashes spread and his glove buried at Flanders Field.
Watch day one of the fourth Ashes Test live on Sky Sports The Ashes and Sky Sports Main Event from 10am on Wednesday.
Also why the ashes are the ashes.
Australia came into the next Ashes series in England as favourites to retain the Ashes.
Australia regained the Ashes on their home turf in the 2006–07 series with a convincing 5–0 victory, only the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.
Later, "varec" also referred to the ashes of such seaweed: The ashes were used as a source of iodine and salts of sodium and potassium.
Quest to "recover those ashes" seeAlso The Honourable Ivo Bligh Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to "recover those ashes".
Series and matches :See also: List of Ashes series for a full listing of all the Ashes series.
Summary of results and statistics :See also: List of Ashes series for a full listing of all the Ashes series since 1882.
Surprisingly beaten, a mock obituary of English cricket was published in the Sporting Times the following day: the phrase "The body shall be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia" prompted the subsequent creation of the Ashes urn.
The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death, her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.
Common combinations with ashes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ashes 76×
- ashes of 24×
- ashes series 21×
- ashes and 13×
- his ashes 11×
- ashes to 10×
- to ashes 9×
- ashes test 9×
- ashes were 9×
- ashes in 7×